Re: [orca-list] Is anyone using Orca with Emacspeak? And does speech-dispatcher support hardware synths?

[Michael Whapples <mwhapples aim com>]

Hello,
I cannot offer help in writing code for such a module, however, I would 
be prepared to test it with my apollo. Also I remember once seeing 
documentation on the communication protocol with the apollo, I am sure I 
could try and dig that up again.

Michael Whapples
On 01/-10/37 20:59, Steve Holmes wrote:
> A while ago, I expressed interest in developing a speech dispatcher
> module to support hardware synths in general.  I was thinking of doing
> something like the generic module.  I then got distracted with more
> job search issues and now a full time gig but there seems to be more
> interest here so I will dig up my notes I kept so far and see if I can
> start somethingup again.
>
> The problem for me now is while I'm out here on the road, I don't have
> a hardware synth with me and I don't have any serial ports on my
> laptop.  However, the USB to serial converter may be an interesting
> idea and I could get my Speakout from home and bring it out here and
> see if I can get going with something.  I would gladly accept some
> collaberative help with this.  Since it involves speech dispatcher, we
> could take some of this talk to the speech dispatcher list or I could
> set up a private group to cover this stuff in developer detail.
>
> This does sound interesting again.
>
> On Mon, Jun 13, 2011 at 02:51:47AM -0400, Thomas Ward wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> >   Snip:
> >
> > However, if one could develop a
> > module for speech dispatcher which could talk to the modern USB ports,
> > those hardware boxes could find a nice home again.
> >
> > Reply:
> >
> > I'm not sure a generic speech-dispatcher module would do it here. Many
> > of the newer USB synths like the Trippletalk USB need a driver to
> > bbewritten for them to operate under Linux, and to this date no one
> > has actually written a Linux driver for them. The serial devices like
> > the Dectalk Express, from what I can tell, don't work using a serial
> > to USB adapter so it looks like USB support for those devices isn't
> > possible either. However, I do agree if we are going to support
> > hardware synths at all we should probably integrate that support into
> > something like speech-dispatcher rather than via Emacspeak.
> >
> >
> > Cheers!
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